Pystromo

Trouble installing on Ubuntu.

Asked by Brian Lassiter

I don't have any idea what I'm doing wrong. I've read the "ReadMe" file, tried to follow the instructions, but it will not let me install this program. Says I don't have user privileges to make changes to the "etc/modules". I tried to research how to setup privileges to allow me to make changes, but I can't seem to get it figured out.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated so I can use this wonderful piece of hardware I have (n52te).

Thanks in advance!

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Raumkraut (raumkraut) said : 		#1

The messages you're seeing are because you're trying to edit system files as a normal user. In order to make the required changes, you need to temporarily become a super user (aka root).
Under Ubuntu, to do this you should prepend the command you want to run with "sudo", eg.:
sudo gedit /etc/modules
sudo modprobe uinput

I don't mention specifically how to do this in the readme, as many Linux distributions don't use sudo, but require the user to explicitly switch to being root.

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